Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
A young man may be "Possess'd of every virtue, grace, and art, / That claims just empire o'er the female heart"Work: Satire V. On Women. [from Love of Fame, The Universal Passion]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11653
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11653"Could human courts take vengeance on the mind, / Axes might rust, and racks and gibbets fall: / Guard then thy mind, and leave the rest to fate."Work: The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Night the Eighthhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22633
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22633"Follow Nature still, / But look it be thine own: is Conscience then / No part of Nature? Is she not supreme? / Thou regicide! O raise her from the dead!"Work: The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Night the Eighthhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22631
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22631"Conscience, her first law broken, wounded lies; / Enfeebled, lifeless, impotent to good; / A feign'd affection bounds her utmost power."Work: The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Night the Eighthhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22627
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22627"What slave, unbless'd, who from to-morrow's dawn / Expects an empire? He forgets his chain, / And, throned in thought, his absent sceptre waves."Work: Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim'd. In Two Parts. [Night-Thoughts]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20526
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20526"What wealth in Intellect, that sovereign power, / Which Sense and Fancy summons to the bar; / Interrogates, approves, or reprehends; / And from the mass those underlings import, / From their materials sifted, and refined, / And in Truth's balance accurately weigh'd, / Forms art and science, gove...Work: Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim'd. In Two Parts. [Night-Thoughts]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20521
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20521"That tyrant, Hope, mark how she domineers: / She bids us quit realities for dreams; / Safety and peace, for hazard and alarm: / That tyrant o'er the tyrants of the soul."Work: Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of the Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality. [Night-Thoughts]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20594
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20594"Reason is man's peculiar; Sense, the brute's. / The Present is the scanty realm of Sense; / The Future, Reason's empire unconfined."Work: Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of the Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality. [Night-Thoughts]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20592
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20592"Sense! take the rein; blind Passion! drive us on; / And, Ignorance! befriend us on our way; / Ye new, but truest patrons of our peace! Yes; give the Pulse full empire; live the Brute, / Since as the Brute we die."Work: Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of the Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality. [Night-Thoughts]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20578
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20578"In Lust's dominion, and in Passion's storm, / Truth's system broken, scatter'd fragments lay: / (As light in chaos, glimmering through the gloom)."Work: Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of the Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality. [Night-Thoughts]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20573
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